(Monocle) Despite small budgets, Buenos Aires’ media firms offer a model for the success of local journalism. Please visit Monocle or pick up a copy of October 2021.
Capital Letters: Buenos Aires
Category: Travel
Brewing Change in the Land of Grapes — Chachingo Craft Beer in Mendoza, Argentina
(Good Beer Hunting) To most ears, “Mendoza” conjures snowy Andean peaks, high-elevation vineyards, and oceans of Malbec. Its name is imbued with a wildness, as well as indulgence. Here, everything revolves around grapes: 70% of Argentina’s top vintages are produced in this central-western province, which is roughly the size of Illinois. So how—and why—would anyone […]
A Local’s Guide to Argentina
Baker Francisco Seubert on biking in Buenos Aires and the towns to hit outside the city. (Condé Nast Traveler) Besides heading three panaderías—his starter dough is the yeasty foundation to many a Buenos Aires restaurant’s bread basket—sourdough specialist Francisco Seubert of Atelier Fuerza also loves a collaboration. His recent projects include opening spin-offs at F4 Esquina steakhouse and Mercat Villa Crespo, and […]
A Local’s Guide to Chile
(Condé Nast Traveler) Vigneron Leonardo Erazo Lynch is a terroir and sustainable-viticulture champion who creates vintages from 100-year-old bush vines cultivated in the volcanic soils of Chile’s southern Itata province, celebrating under-appreciated varieties such as Cinsault and Carignan. A leading light in South America’s natural-wine movement, he honed his experience in South Africa’s Swartland and Mendoza […]
The 37 best cities in the world in 2021
(Time Out) Buenos Aires: What makes us great: Whether you want to devour your own weight in steak, sip skin-contact wine or dance all that off to tango (or all three), Buenos Aires is bursting with late-night gratification. Though the city has not yet bounced back to its pre-pandemic buzz, BA was still voted the world’s […]
Mendoza wine guide
For ONLY magazine, August 2021.
The 30 coolest streets in the world
(Time Out, June 2021) We quizzed 27,000 city-dwellers and asked local experts to rank the top streets in the world for food, fun, culture and community A bustling thoroughfare linking smart Palermo with edgier Villa Crespo, Calle Thames is best known for its independent kitchens and watering holes, many housed in repurposed buildings. Foodies revere […]
Patagonia Road Trip
(The Essentialist) Longing to roam free? Chase the scent of adventure beginning in the world’s most southern city, hugging the Andes and navigating north through Patagonia before heading east to the Atlantic. A road trip traversing such vast and striking landscapes makes for the perfect slow-travel voyage, to be filed under ‘epic’. For the rest […]
The best new restaurants in the world: the Hot List 2021
(Condé Nast Traveller) These are the best of restaurants to have opened in the last year, our 2021 Hot List. They are the spots we can’t wait to eat in as soon as it’s safe to do so. FAYER, Madrid, Spain Having introduced their fascinating mix of Argentine and contemporary Israeli cooking to Buenos Aires four years ago, […]
Condé Nast Traveller Hot List 2021 A slow stay amid the gauchos of Argentina
(Condé Nast Traveller) Why book?Come for the boutique estancia, stay for the candle-lit barbecue suppers, endless pampas landscape and comforting dose of all-inclusive TLC from host Cinders Paxton. Set the scenePaxton is currently working with local social-distancing rules to welcome just four guests at a time, who get to play in eight hectares of farmland […]